Overview
- EFFIS reports 382,607 hectares burned so far this year across 228 fires, making 2025 the most devastating season for terrain affected in decades.
- At Jarilla (Cáceres), crews mounted a “day key” containment push with about 25 aircraft, UME units and international reinforcements, targeting a fire that has scorched roughly 15,500 hectares within a 155‑kilometer perimeter.
- The crisis has caused at least four deaths and prompted more than 30,000 evacuations nationally, with multiple road closures and Madrid–Galicia high‑speed rail suspended for a sixth consecutive day.
- Galicia’s tally in recent weeks exceeds 70,000 hectares burned, including more than 18,000 at Larouco, while the Porto de Sanabria fire in Zamora keeps ten villages evacuated and has crossed into A Veiga; air quality in several northwest and western areas is rated unhealthy due to high PM2.5.
- Pedro Sánchez visited the Jarilla command post, renewed his call for a cross‑party climate pact and said emergency‑zone declarations will go to the Cabinet on August 26, as PP leaders resist elevating to Level 3 and authorities report arson arrests in Colmenar Viejo and Vilardevós.